The Career Promotion Day events were organized by Strategic Development Agency NGO within the framework of the “Modernizating Vocational Education and Training in Agriculture in Armenia” (MAVETA) project in Syunik Marz.
On May 11, over eighty school students from settlements of the Goris community got acquainted with the agricultural specialties taught at the Goris State Agricultural College in Khot village.
Welcoming the participants, Lilit Beglaryan, VET consultant of MAVETA project, presented the specialties taught in the college with a dual educational approach, including milk and dairy technology, dairy farm management, farm management, veterinary, agricultural mechanization. In her speech, Lilit Beglaryan emphasized the successful experience of introducing modern innovative technologies in the rural sector and the demand and career prospects of specialists with agricultural education in the labor market.
Anna Torozyan, director of Goris Agricultural College, in her speech emphasized the role of specialists with agricultural education for the development of communities and Syunik marz, assured the students that the professionalism of college faculty and cooperation with private companies are a sufficient basis for getting quality education and finding a guaranteed job.
Then the schoolchildren participated at the performance of milk laboratory testing and production of suluguni cheese by the college teacher Lilit Avetisyan and the students. Later on, they visited the animals kept at The Ranch LLC, which was accompanied by the the demonstration of mastitis testing by Armo Gabrielyan, a veterinarian of The Ranch LLC, and also had a question and answer session with the college teachers and employers.
At the end of the day the event was closed with the screening of an animation about dual educational system and the reception.
